The number of cars set alight in France on New Year's Eve fell significantly this year, the government has said.
Some 12% fewer cars were set alight on Wednesday compared with 2013, in a measure of what has effectively become an annual event in French suburbs since riots in 2005 in Paris and elsewhere.
The number of vehicles torched fell from 1,067 a year ago to 940, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Security was high in France overnight following a series of street attacks.
While the car-burning can be easily traced back to 2005, some correspondents say the idea of burning cars as a form of protest in France dates back into the 1990s. T
The country has reported regularly on the numbers of cars set ablaze each December 31, although former President Nicholas Sarkozy abandoned the practice in 2010-11 amid fears it was sparking copycat actions.
The interior ministry this year cited the "substantial, active and dissuasive mobilisation of the security forces" as a reason for the fall this year.
Some 90,000 security personnel were deployed over New Year's Eve.
France has been on alert after a spate of unexpected and apparently unrelated attacks in the run up to Christmas.
The attacks, in Nantes, Dijon and Tours, left more than 20 people injured.
